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if this 4 year old is proficient with emacs i’m going to kill myself

yaaaaarrr tis cheaper than eva matey

i’m playing via geforce now, and was an early access purchase—i was a huge dos 1/2, bg 1/2?fan. i love crpgs is general. i think the thing to keep in mind is that this is a somewhat niche style of rpg.

bg3 is as close to a perfect crpg as i’ve played. the story is great, the the companions are interesting, the options are nearly endless. it’s just everything you’d want.

that said, this isn’t skyrim, and you don’t get your hand held with the quest tracker. there’s quite a bit going on with quests as well as all the mechanics.

if you don’t have experience with games in this rpg genre and you don’t enjoy reading a wiki from time to time, you might want to watch some youtube first.

overall the game is a masterpiece, but it doesn’t have as broad of an appeal as some other rpgs. if you’re already a crpg fan, then it’s basically christmas and you’ve been very good this year.

i can’t wait to see which skin they use on this new assassins creed game

“programming” is so broad though. surely there’s room to have it be both work and a hobby ?

i mean, it is for me and lots of folks i know.

hey guys stop talking about the thing that i just made a post about but won’t name and therefore is not about that thing that i’m complaining about.

if you want to see better content, create it. you’re making it worse by posting about it yourself.

i can see it both ways. for technical folks, nothing beats a package manager. in terms of getting your emulator i’m front of the masses there is absolutely no question that Steam is the platform that makes that easiest.

fair!

respectfully disagree—this is very much a regex dsl. folks still need to conceptually understand regex to use this, which begs the question about who this is for.

the best use case i can think of is large and complicated expressions, but i’d need to see more of that to have a definitive opinion.

i mean, you can learn the basics of matching in 30 minutes or less. that core knowledge will be broadly applicable across any tool that uses regex. things get much easier once to have a handle on the basics.

…or you can learn this regex dsl and still have to learn regex. the difference is you’re learning a non-portable regex syntax.

so, where’s the email address regex? that’s where this lives or dies. there is no reason to use this for extremely simple happy-path regexes.

i’m having a tough time understanding who this is for. a beginner might think this is great, but they’re shooting themselves in the foot by adding an additional layer of abstraction rather than reading something to learn the basics.